Blender Made Retopology 10x Easier & Forgot to Mention it!

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Blender made retopology 10x easier and forgot to tell anyone. Since 4.0 there's been a cool snapping upgrade that makes retopology so much easier. The difference between Face project and face nearest make retopologising any cylindrical object so much faster.
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[@CaiqueBalt]

And remember to use the Smooth tool of Slide Relax in the sculpt mode. This will help you to improve the flow of your retopology, without modifying the shape of the mesh. (Use Slide Relax with Shift pressed, and wireframe turned on)

[@MayVeryWellBeep]

This video and this comment are enormously helpful.

[@yume3536]

Brother you are gold. Thank you!

[@TheJackalxy]

OMG FINALLY!!! That's the best blender update since 2.8

[@DarkHarpuia]

So basically what retopoflow does, but without as many of its bells and whistles. That's a huge upgrade, honestly.

[@KeelanJon]

This was definitely an issue I came across a lot when topologising. Thanks for highlighting this new feature Grant, incredibly useful!

[@rocker10039]

Now I hope they get to maya 2024 level retopology. It's literally magic, I was blown away by the auto retopology. it is literally a 1 click solution to 90% of all topology problems.

[@SpiritKingD]

@rocker10039 is maya free yet?

[@rocker10039]

@@SpiritKingD it is not free, you could check for yourself with a quick google search.

[@rocker10039]

@@SpiritKingD no and you could find that out yourself with a simple search on the internet

[@rocker10039]

@@SpiritKingD idk why my replies keep getting deleted but it's not free and you could've looked it up.

[@SpiritKingD]

@@rocker10039 I know, but some friendly interaction with a fellow in the same hobby/career can be nice. Thank you for replying buddy!

[@Panifichiamo]

This was the best and cheper course i ever bought !!!

[@franciscolagrifa18]

Another awesome tutorial, short and to the point to make sculpting and retopo more fun! Thanks!

[@AlexSt-James]

you can save some time in the tidy up if you diplicate your circle and repetat the process at both ends of your arm, then add loops as needed. When you add loops you disable your snapping and scale your loop to size. then you enable the snapping again and press G so it triggers and gets into place.

[@MagicSwordFilms]

It also has a really good retopology view now as well! It makes it way easier to see what you’re doing, it’s up in the top menus near all the gizmo options while in edit mode

[@RuneEyeMage]

You have no idea the amount of time this just saved me.Thank you for your service pal. I salute you o7

[@rusnakandrey]

Don't forget about Retopology shading in Mesh Edit Mode Overlays, sometimes it's much more convient.

[@killer8217gaming]

hey! Im recently trying to get into the whole retopology thing and while i am starting to get the hang of it i havent so far come across this. How do you go about enabling such an overlay?

[@firmanawd]

@@killer8217gaming you can find in the Mesh Edit Mode (only appear in Edit Mode), right to the Overlays Icon.

[@fortissimoX]

Ahh, short and informative video! A breath of fresh air! 😁 Thank you Grant for everything you're doing! 👍

[@jasperzatch610]

Always the biggest thanks to you Grant! You're the best

[@rodrigosaure]

Thank you very much... there should be a Blender category for the Nobel prize. You could be a candidate this year for this tip.

[@tigerkulla7504]

I was retopologizing a tree yesterday in blender 3.8 wondering why this wasnt a feature already, so glad they decided to add this in. This alone is worth the upgrade

[@lukajukic1066]

What the hell, I used to spend hours upon hours on this, this can be 80% faster. Thanks Grant!

[@tuulikk2]

This is awesome! Thank you! With snapping getting more useful, now I hope knife and extrude will aswell.

[@AzureWeaver]

HUGE quality of life upgrade

[@villagerjj]

I literally just found out about this AFTER retoping a complex model, this works so well!

[@ArtisanCyanide]

I rarely need retopo at all, but when I do I say a prayer for all you character artists out there, cause it is INFURIATING. Would never want to go back to Maya, but QuadDraw was already leagues ahead of Blender ten years ago go, when I started. Hope they will match that someday.

[@xtmt1234]

There is a quad draw plugin for Blender which works almost exactly like what Maya had.

[@Thykothaken]

PolyQuilt

[@CaspiannDev]

Awesome tip as always, short, clear and perfectly explained. 😄

[@igotbit9454]

Honestly this is the most grueling part. I’m glad they added this and thx for sharing it

[@am3sdigital]

Man, face project has caused me so many headaches. Thanks for the tip!

[@Muhammad-Jacobs699]

Had no idea this was possible! I was still manually snapping in 4.2 before this video. Thank you!

[@AlyphRat]

Oh my lord, I'm beyond impressed. It's like Retopoflow but on steroids.

[@Sivanot]

This has been a thing for years lol I remember being confused and having to figure out whether to click Face Project or Face Nearest the first time I ever made something with the snapping tools.

[@sandwich3044]

Oh that does make it easier!! Good, BC I got into nomad sculpt but I want to after retopo them and was dreading it using blender lol.

[@Outmind01]

Now if only instead of creating sub-par images someone would repurpose AI to tackle retopology altogether, that would be a use of AI I'd support 500%. Retopology is so tedious and few things come close to it when it comes to killing the enjoyment of creating 3D stuff.

[@grabbitt]

Completely agree

[@SianaGearz]

MeshAnything: Artist-Created Mesh Generation with Autoregressive Transformers, Chen et al at Shanghai AI Lab, published a few weeks ago. Source code is supplied. Takes 8GB of memory to mesh up to 1600 faces, which is... not a lot! But it looks promising.

[@northwind6199]

They're hardly subpar anymore for better or worse

[@Paz_Leigh]

I think I'm one of those 1/1000 weirdos who find retopo kind of therapeutic, but yea ,massive time sink for sure.

[@FlamingFoxProd]

Pretty sure that already exists, I saw a video about exactly that recently. I'm glad to have AI do the tedious work for me that allows me to be more creative - instead of doing the creative work for me so I just have to do the tedious stuff.

[@celmyguzman8972]

I didn't know this. Thank you!

[@kieranm7469]

I have struggled to understand for ages what those two snapping features do! Finally! Grant, you're the man!

[@shataraterevar]

Blender 3.6 (and I believe earlier versions too, don't know how far it goes though) has that option, but it's a seperate snap tool instead of an option for vertex/edge snaping.

[@yezzzsir]

That is a huuuuge improvement! Thanks for the heads up 👍

[@drawn2mike]

Wow! Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Great Tip Grant.

[@nashonightmare]

Super useful as usual. Thanks Grant!

[@__Rizzler__]

oh my god. thanks grant abitt. really needed this

[@CGDive]

NICE! I missed that one. Thanks for sharing!

[@halodragonmaster]

Well this makes my life significantly easier, thank you.

[@travissmith7471]

This is wonderful to know. Thanks for sharing!

[@TheSteveTheDragon]

that always made retopologizing a nightmare for me, thanks for pointing this out!

[@Jadinass]

Amazing. I do so much retopology and this will really help

[@mas.k.3765]

Face nearest existed for more than a year

[@Ponlets]

well now more people know about it

[@HanSolocambo]

Face Nearest has been there for a very long time. Retopoflow has been using that option by default for a long time. There's absolutely nothing new here ;)

[@Cactasolar]

I downloaded 3.3 LTS and it was there lol

[@sundaydsus]

I didn’t know about it and appreciate the video a lot.

[@TeamMuggi]

I had to check to confirm, since I knew the list wasn't *exactly* the same and I knew some of the stuff now worked differently. Before, there was only: -Face Project (Works like current "Face", snapping only the last selected to the surface) -Face Nearest (Works like in video) Now, there is: -Face (Works like old "Face Project", snapping only the last selected to the surface) And in a separate list "For Individual Elements" below... -Face Project (Works like in video, but projected from camera angle) -Face Nearest (Works like in video)

[@gamespender8605]

​@@TeamMuggioh hey muggi, fancy seeing you here

[@alecdorfman4871]

@@HanSolocambo but you have to go into the retopoflow environment to do that

[@SolearGnG]

Nice find, I didn't know about this before. Thank you!

[@OkamiZone]

This is a huge tip! I hate re-topology because I always mess up not thinking in 3d all the time.

[@slavsit7600]

wdym not thinking in 3d

[@Tutterzoid]

Awesome Short Tut

[@Songfugel]

Such an icredibly simple yet elegant solution 😮

[@karthikditya4297]

I got the retopo add on for free during the Blendermarket sale so been using that

[@alan_ars]

Awesome trick!! Thank you Grant!!

[@user-vr1ow9rl8v]

Incredibly useful, thanks

[@Marc_Fuchs_1985]

I never had to do any retopology so far, I always modeled my characters by hand. Which to some degree, is quite a pain because it's complicated and takes forever. With my next character, I should try to convert what everybody does, sculpting then retopologizing. Is probably still less work than how I modeled my characters so far.

[@jun-cu1jc]

Thank you!

[@Silver_Fox_Weirdo]

how about using curves with depth and shrink modifier? you can snap to volume ^^

[@JohnnyThund3r]

Can't imagine using any other program to retopolize at this point. Between this and the Bsurface addon I'm pretty sure Blender is well ahead of every other 3d Software for this task.

[@TheHyBriD3I6]

Ooh! That's fire!

[@aledmb]

This is huge!

[@sobreaver]

Thank you for pointing out this gold nugget in the pot of candies :P

[@BobTheSkateboard01]

Instead of a cylinder try using a curve. You can adjust each point in the curve to fit the arm more closely and then when it shrinkwraps it's much less messy.

[@EIendir]

This Dude is Amazing ! GJ

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

IMO the shrinkwrap is still better if you set it to 'Project'

[@blendergame]

Thx Grant!

[@dajkini]

Super merci !

[@patnor7354]

A nice improvement

[@smolfloaty]

What??? This is HUUUGE!! 🤯

[@laboratory_games]

Always a worth tip!

[@sambamproductions8883]

Thanks for sharing!

[@alecdorfman4871]

I used to use 3ds max for over 10 years before I switched the blender and I'm still frustrated with all of these lacking features. It's funny finally to see some of these basic functions to be added to blender after 10 years when 3ds Max had it from version 1

[@azerqerty2277]

Now more video of sculpting from you please ❤

[@Dhieen]

Thats why i became an environment artist instead of a character artist I just decimate my rock sculpt and i have my low poly haha

[@owenrichards1418]

Thank you Grant!

[@n3onkn1ght]

Surprised you didn't bring up the new retopology shading mode as well.

[@TamerBayouq]

The what!?

[@n3onkn1ght]

@@TamerBayouq There's a retopology overlay. It's been there since like 3.6, I think. It's in the Viewport Overlays dropdown.

[@corpsecannibal2151]

OMG thank you so mucchh for this vid man!!

[@rjwarzone]

Thanks for the tip

[@TomCAT_Character_Art]

nice discovery. thanks!

[@Morraak]

Super cool!

[@tex0300]

dope, dude

[@alecdorfman4871]

00:30 is it a little bit or 10x easier? Make up your mind!

[@grabbitt]

Yes 10 x is a little 100x is a lot.

[@AnnoyedAlways2]

Great video Grant, please can I be cheeky and ask for help on a model I'm trying to retopologize? I'm so so stuck.

[@denisddd9362]

cool thanks for the video!

[@bjornragnarsson8230]

Thcnx ❣️

[@RoccoSchneider]

Shrinkwrap for an circle or an poly strip... Thats all. Thanks for the intro 4 newbes... but blender was top of the notch already its tools. non parametric, but fu****n fast in building things

[@Salrie-Antlerhorn]

Ok I'd like to ask since no other video has shown me. How do I apply the retopology to the mesh and do I have to retopo the whole model or just the parts I want to rig? I'm trying to retopo then rig a head with an open mouth but his eyes don't move, just his mouth.

[@damurlive]

I see this feature a while ago when i see someone on youtube using this when retopology. Then i tried and yes this tools make retopology feels much easier.

[@quake4313]

Thanks for this video, i hate when it snaps every vertice to the front parts

[@RoseKindred]

Holy Blessed Hades! Why did they not feature this? I am horrible at retopo from a sculpt and since I rarely need to I don't practice on it. But, this makes it much simpler for someone like me. Thank you.

[@82Catfish]

a video about hip/pelvis/upper leg retopo loops and good deformation topology would be amazing

[@darkuskain]

Hi grant! Love your videos. Just finished a few of your courses on gamedev. I was just wondering I'd you had any resources (or could direct me to some) on workload from blender to unreal 5? Thanks very much

[@grabbitt]

Not yet but looking into it

[@darkuskain]

@@grabbitt awesome! It would be super helpful! Thanks for the reply man

[@נעםזבה]

Thank god

[@kaito462]

Hi Grant, have you used b-surface add-on before? I would love to see a video on that for retopology

[@grabbitt]

Yes I have. I found it a little awkward though

[@Muhammad-Jacobs699]

I've found PoyQuilt to be a lot better instead (also Free). Does take a bit to get used to, but is amazingly efficient for retopology.

Thanks

[@CucumberNipples]

What is retopology? Is it only used when rigging a character for animations? Or does it just add more geometry? I thought adding more poly or geometry to a character and into a game adds more data to the game.

[@grabbitt]

It's about reducing the amount of polygons

[@AlekMat]

I'm 3.6 user and it was available

[@grabbitt]

Must have been introduced in blender 4 then

[@shadowryugamer7349]

Hey grant can you make a tutorial about ucupaint addon of blender or is it any good for texture painting?

[@grabbitt]

I'll try an take a look at some point

[@ComplainBear]

O__O thx for the tip!

[@Cactasolar]

I'm a bit confused, "face nearest" is an option in the 3.3 LTS. Is this different from the one in the video? I tested it with a circle on a cylinder and it worked similarly

[@grabbitt]

Yes like I said it's been around for a while but the interface has changed so made sense to do another video to clear stuff up

[@knerf999]

also, looptools->space

[@rifqiaji5031]

How to convert bsurface into normal mesh. after all finished and I apply the modifiers especially the shrinkwrap, each time I add new object the object verticies just keep attaching to the bsurface object. it stress me so much. help please

[@WerfErtt-wf8sr]

Great

[@s.patterson5698]

I am trying this, but for some reason when I press 'G' to grab, it keeps grabbing from the center of the model's waist rather than around the wrist. It must be a setting or something that's off. UPDATE: Figured out I had to remove all the clothes, even underwear, before it would consider snapping the circle around the wrist. But now enco7ntered a new problem...I canseem to extrude beyond the first extrude. It seems extruding upon itself. It seemed so simple in your video, but it's not working for me😢

[@grabbitt]

Check you transform pivot point maybe

[@petcarlson]

Can I move these vertices around in sculpt mode and still have them stay snapped to the underlying mesh?

[@grabbitt]

To a degree yes with the shrink wrap modifier

[@petcarlson]

@@grabbitt hmm yeah that technically works. I'm just hoping for the similar functionality that retopoFlow has where you can pull vertices around and they stay snapped. The only problem with doing it using the modifier is if you get too far things are going to start to get fucky. I wonder if it's possible with some geometry nodes set up. I feel like this could also just be an option in sculpt mode where each brush would have a snapping option.

[@dylbog.]

I just tried to continue to the next video like it was udemy lol